= september 2006 =
nyt: [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/opinion/28thu1.html?ex=1317096000&en=3eb3ba3410944ff9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Rushing Off a Cliff]
TextEditors: [http://veloedit.sourceforge.net/ Velocity UI for Eclipse]
[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL]
[http://www.psc.edu/~semke/cvs_branches.html CVS Branch and Tag primer]
shirky: [http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Ontology is Overrated]. So are tags, but there's good thinking in here about organization and the legacy of systems geared to physical objects. Something I took away is that filesystems ''are'' physical structure. I should elaborate.
[http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ What's That Bug?]
[http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-June/000784.html Decentralizing Wikipedia]? Very worth a read. ForkingWikipedia? I've been wondering about this for a while. There have got to be ways to address the structural problems.
[http://www.myspace.com/gawddam GCDC] - "The only chord progression we know."
[http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html stevey]:
:Bad Agile seems for some reason to be embraced by early risers. I think there's some mystical relationship between the personality traits of "wakes up before dawn", "likes static typing but not type inference", "is organized to the point of being anal", "likes team meetings", and "likes Bad Agile". I'm not quite sure what it is, but I see it a lot. ...
:If a process is potentially good, but 90+% of the time smart and well-intentioned people screw it up, then it's a bad process. So they can only say it's the team's fault so many times before it's not really the team's fault.
[http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/huayno/ Huayno]
ng: [http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/09/ten-years-ago.html Ten Years Ago]
EmmylouHarris, ''RedDirtGirl'', "MyAntonia".
[http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/community.html On Community]
[http://www.graphviz.org/ Graphviz]
"In a mass-market economy, a revolutionary song is any song you choose to sing yourself." -- UtahPhillips
ScorchedEarth remake: [http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/downloads.php Scorched 3D], including a .deb file. Not actually quite as cool as the original, but surprisingly playable.
A [http://winfield.wetpaint.com/page/Home Winfield wiki]
[http://labs.oreilly.com/code/ O'Reilly code search]
wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lightweight_markup_languages List of lightweight markup languages]
MarkupEngines: [http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html reStructured Text]
fm: [http://freshmeat.net/browse/853/?topic_id=853 Text Processing::Markup]
[http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/ Taking Children Seriously]
Me [http://reddit.com/info/ia6f/comments/ciatw being a bit of an ass] over on reddit.
The [http://mantup.com/usenet argument and instructions] for using Usenet as your source of large, legally ambiguous binaries.
TruckstopHoneymoon: [http://www.mikewest.net/clips/Magnolia_Tree.mp3 Magnolia Tree] (mp3)
[http://www.frontporchradio.net/ Front Porch Radio]
[http://jacobwashere.blogspot.com/2006/09/at-last-summer-thaws.html "at last summer thaws"]
GrimMeathookFuture
c2: [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WeirdDeveloperDreams weird developer dreams]
Maybe the [http://www.kasperlundpezi.at/ scariest web site splash page of all time].
ALA: [http://alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/ fancy css for lists]
debian: DebianTricks
= august 2006 =
[http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/390/39028.html Snakes on a Plane] for the TI-89.
[http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/02/stupidest_man_a_1.html "Well, I have Shepard Krech III of Brown University right here in email."]
A somewhat [http://www.escapeartist.com/OREQ13/Real_Estate_In_Hungary.html limited] grasp of history: "Finally, in 1956, the Hungarians acquiesced, and the communist revolution was complete."
[http://www.tubmanfreeschool.org/ Tubman Free School]
[http://seibertron.com/infozone/transformers101.php This is Megatron.]
[http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/info/chars.html Characters in the local part of a mail address]
[http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/pedagogical_abuse/ Pedagogical abuse]:
:The thing about being 12 is that you donít generally have the experience necessary to be able to determine when an adult is being a massive dickhead. Instead, you tend to internalize the criticisms the dickhead makes.
[http://xkcd.com/c149.html Powers] I wish translated better to real life.
[http://levente.littvay.hu/?p=18 Levi on the GRE]
I wish [http://daviswiki.org/40_ounce_Meal_Plan this] had occurred to me a few years ago.
[http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1333042 A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority]
[http://lostsnail.org/journal/ leaving a trail]
AmericaOnlineSearchData
Ask MetaFilter: [http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/22130 Porn in the woods]
wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikvah Mikvah]
RockyMountainFolksFestival: JeffTweedy, AniDifranco, MartinSexton, GuyClark, KrisKristofferson and AndrewBird this year.
OpenBSD & chrooted apache: [http://www.viratech.com/info/resolve.php?info=23 1], [http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot 2], [http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-22473.html 3]. On a related note, '''fuck''' OpenBSD.
[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/htpasswd.html htpasswd docs]
WareLogging: [http://www.acme.com/software/micro_httpd/ micro_httpd]
WebComics: Apropos [http://www.angryflower.com/hiding.gif Bob the Angry Flower].
Some great [http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html Bill Watterson stuff].
[http://anovelideabookstore.com/ A Novel Idea]
[http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/15/134054.php Reasons] not to read Oz.
[http://blogging.infogami.com/manifesto.html blogging is stupid]: possibly true
A tract where Jack Chick sort of [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1031/1031_01.asp?wpc=1031_01.asp&wpp=a insinuates that Islam is an evil plot by the Catholic church].
RedditEffect
UNP [http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/ blog]
[http://www.alternet.org/story/40174/ There's no such thing as eco-tourism]
[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/poetics/poettran.htm Aristotle's Poetics]
Isaac and Dana's [http://www.educationrevolution.org/directory.html Directory of Democratic Education], and the short [http://www.educationrevolution.org/lisofdemscho.html web version of the list].
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6xd0aITFM Steve Martin plays the banjo] (youtube)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw Steven Martin plays the banjo with Earl Scruggs] (youtube)
GeorgeCarlin: an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNJgKwd3uQc expanded list of words you can't say] (youtube)
SageFrancis: "you're all give me ethnicity or give me dreads"
xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/c137.html When did we forget our dreams?]
WareLogging: All these years later, WindowMaker still rocks my world.
[http://grrm.livejournal.com/5804.html GRRM on airport security] ([http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007844.html via])
[http://web.image.ufl.edu/help/latex/margins.shtml Latex margins] & [http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=gutter Why is the inside margin so narrow?]
[http://jacobwashere.blogspot.com/ Jacob]
Creek Running North: [http://faultline.org/index.php/site/bullshit/ refuting Walt Whitman]
[http://wiki.creativecommons.org CcWiki]: A big list of [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators Creative Commons] content curators.
Some fairly sound [http://www.esquire.com/foodanddrink/database/rules_output.html advice] re: alcohol.
[http://groups.google.com/group/Moleskinerie/browse_frm/thread/7135ef7d39fdf2e3 Moleskines now being produced in China?]
WareLogging: [http://www.dpreview.com/news/0608/06080202sonygpscs1.asp Sony GPS tracker for photographers]; looks like it may be a clever stopgap hack 'til that point when cameras with built-in GPS are common.
= july 2006 =
FlyingSpaghettiMonster [http://fsm.typepad.com/hatemail/ hate mail]
[http://www.greenearthinstitute.org/summer_squash.htm Summer squash recipes]
D^2 [http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2005_11_27_d-squareddigest_archive.html takes on ''Freakonomics''].
PaulGraham [http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html on procrastination]:
:Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
:Good in a sense, at least. The people who want you to do the errands won't think it's good. But you probably have to annoy them if you want to get anything done. The mildest seeming people, if they want to do real work, all have a certain degree of ruthlessness when it comes to avoiding errands.
[http://shawncole.net/ shawncole.net]
[http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ Scorched Earth in 3D].
[http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.937094,-124.018993 Tillamook Rock Lighthouse] (gmaps)
Tim Bray: [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/17/No-Databases No Databases!?] - exactly.
Tim Bray's [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ ongoing] - I like the design of this.
[http://pdxartwork.blogspot.com/ Public art in Portland].
HummingbirdFight.
[http://lemonodor.com/archives/001409.html What is it like to be a spider?]
[http://www.spudworks.com/article/66/2/ "Dagny fluttered with lust."]
SiteSyndication: Perl module to convert named character entities [http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/NumericEntities.html to numeric].
[http://absinth.modernmethod.com/sajax/ sajax]
[http://www.biro-art.com/images2/pengrimreaper.jpg penguin grim reaper] (jpg)
[http://levente.littvay.hu/?p=9 New mandola].
OrsonScottCard being considerably [http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-06-25-1.html less of an asshole] than I've come to expect in the last few years.
[http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=art_1195&issue=nov_04 Why] textbooks are uniformly worthless.
[http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html SCWM, Pot and the GPL]
[http://www.krugle.com/ Krugle] - source code search.
[http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8843 Googlebot info] - robots.txt and stuff.
[http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/ Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly] - I've gotta give 'em it's a catchy title.
[http://ztechshop.net/computers/sub-100/ iPaq sub-100]
[http://www.selvesandothers.org/article14755.html Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?]
WebComics: [http://bataspecial.freeblog.hu/ inverz]
[http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bookinfo/5057.html Tales from the Journey of the Dead], by AlanBoye, just came out. I worked on this book a little. It's good.
[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=178 Google Maps, the fool's gold of mashups]
MappingStuff: [http://www.flashearth.com/ Flash Earth] - fairly impressive Flash interface to GMaps/MS data.
[http://www.mapbuilder.net/ Mapbuilder.net]
[http://p1k3.com/imgs/responsible.jpg Damn straight].
[http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html gmaps terms of use]
[http://www.plaintxt.org/ plaintxt.org]
[http://myspace.com/christhile Chris Thile's myspace page]
[http://p1k3.com/chapbook chapbook] (current state of all files)
[http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499 Stupid] doesn't even begin to cover it.
[http://levi.littvay.hu/ Levi's Blog] - [http://levente.littvay.hu/?p=4 Looking for a tall hispanic male]
[http://www.robotskirts.com/ Robotskirts]